14 – 16 September 2023

WORLDS WE ARE proceeds from these fundamental questions, not only existential but historical and urgent ones. To answer them, the program stage a generative conversation among twenty moving image works—hybrid documentaries, video essays, narrative experiments, filmed performances, archival audiovisions—mainly by women situated in different parts of the globe, whose subjects are matrilineally linked and stories centrifugally circle around places in Southeast Asia.

It ventures that our disposition toward the world—the modes in which we perceive, imagine, and express it, our striving to locate it and ourselves in it—shapes us and, in turn, how we share the world with others and how with others we shape we as a world and as worlds.